Status - John Skinner - USS O'Brien:
O'Brien remained at the Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs to the port side due to its collision with USS Case.Other Events
- Task Force 16 (Enterprise) left Pearl Harbor for a raid in the central Pacific, with its destination still not determined.
- Task Force 11 (Lexington), now in the south Pacific, was ordered to also conduct offensive operations. Vice Admiral Brown, who was in command, began to prepare for a raid on the Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain, which had been significantly built up and provided air cover for Japanese ships in the Bismarcks, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
- A transport carrying the occupation force for Canton Island grounded on the surrounding reef. Troops were able to get ashore. Canton Island is due north of Samoa, and about two-thirds of the way between Hawaii and Samoa. It had been a stopover on the original Pan Am commercial flights between the US and New Zealand. and was used similarly by the US military during the war.
- Tankers and other transport ships were continuing to be sunk at an alarming pace. Commands are established on Aruba and Curacao (terrritories of the Netherlands at this time), to manage port security, convoy routing, and tanker protection in the Atlantic.
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